This is a small plough attached to a yoke that sticks to the shells of a team of garden snails. The yoked snail team can then be set loose to wander round the flower bed leaving a neat furrow behind them.

Best deployed in a small area enclosed by the snail-discouraging metallic tape you can get to put round flowerpots, lest they make a break for freedom and your lettuces...
-- prufrax, Dec 10 2012

Sherman_27s_20Hermits prior military version [xenzag, Dec 10 2012]

Sail plow - The origin of this idea Sail Plow
[pashute, Dec 11 2012]

I quite this variation, as I'm always keen to see our friends in the animal kingdom given meaningful (and meaningless) tasks. [+]
-- xenzag, Dec 10 2012


[+] They would be great in a little Zen Garden!
-- xandram, Dec 10 2012


Faultless.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 10 2012


Most gardeners I know wouldn't classify snails as "harmless," but you'd have to ask them for the gory details.
-- DrCurry, Dec 10 2012


Shuck'm if they can't take a yoke.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 10 2012


Good one [2 Fries].
-- AusCan531, Dec 10 2012



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